Re: [xml] libxml2 and default namespaces

[Rob Richards <rrichards ctindustries net>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> DOM is irrelevant, what matters is XML. Libxml2 does not implement DOM.
> If you're discussing about whether an API allows somthings in a memory
> tree, then that's not XML, it's irrelevant. If you are discussing about 
> how an instance looks like, then XML is a normative prose which tells
> what is flawed and what is not.
>
> Your example had a serialization without the xmlns, so there is no namespace
> from an XML perspective. Anything else is discussions about implementations,
> are implementation specific and not normative from my point of view.
>   
I'm want to add this comment from my perspective and leave this thread 
at that not to keep this going.

From my POV, if you build a document using DOM (or however you want to 
do it) and it doesn't have the same meaning when serialized then 
something is seriously wrong. So, omitting the default namespace when 
serialized produces a different meaning of the document than what was 
built... that is just plain wrong (again my opinion).

Rob